"Room at the Top (2012 film) Room at the Top is a 2012 BBC television adaptation by Amanda Coe of John Braine's novel of the same name, with a cast led by Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh. It aired in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012 on BBC Four, but was originally due to premiere on 7 April 2011. A statement at the time said that delay was due to ""a potential contractual issue"", and it later emerged that another film company challenged the sale of the TV rights to Great"
"The Room on the Roof The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.. The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphaned seventeen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. Due to his guardian, Mr. Harrison's strict ways, he runs away from his home to live with his Indian friends. Rusty,an Anglo-Indian boy was born in Kausauli in Himachal Pradesh in 1934. This is a story about an orphaned boy, from the Anglo-Indian descent, living in"
"Room at the Top (song) ""Room at the Top"" is a song by Adam Ant, and the lead track on his fourth solo album, ""Manners & Physique"". It was released as a single on 5 February 1990, a month prior to the album's release. After having spent most of the past five years working on his acting career, this was Adam's first single since ""Vive Le Rock"" in 1985. ""Room at the Top"" peaked at number seventeen on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making it his second biggest hit in the US behind ""Goody Two Shoes"". It was also a number"
"Great Britain and as an executive for Grampian Television. He died in 1995 at Crieff, Tayside (now part of Perth and Kinross). Neil Paterson (writer) James Edmund Neil Paterson (31 December 1915 – 19 April 1995), known as Neil Paterson, was a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays. He won the 1959 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Room at the Top"". Before his success as a writer, he worked in journalism and had a brief career as an amateur footballer, playing for Leith Athletic and Dundee United in the Scottish Football League. Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire"
"Neil Paterson (writer) James Edmund Neil Paterson (31 December 1915 – 19 April 1995), known as Neil Paterson, was a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and screenplays. He won the 1959 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Room at the Top"". Before his success as a writer, he worked in journalism and had a brief career as an amateur footballer, playing for Leith Athletic and Dundee United in the Scottish Football League. Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire (now part of Inverclyde), Paterson graduated from the University of Edinburgh and had a brief career in senior football, playing as an"
"Time at the Top Time at the Top, is a 1999 cable television film for Showtime that was directed by Jimmy Kaufman and written by Linda Brookover and Alain Silver based on from the award-winning young adult novel by Edward Ormondroyd. It stars Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Busfield, and Lynne Adams. Susan Shawson (Elisha Cuthbert), a 13-year old high-school, inadvertently travels back in time in her apartment building's elevator. As altered by Dr. Reynolds (Michael Sinelnikoff), a retired physicist living upstairs, this secret time machine transports Susan from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the exact same spot in 1881. There she"
"The Room Upstairs The Room Upstairs is a 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie based on the novel ""The Room Upstairs"" by Norma Levinson, starring Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Joan Allen and Linda Hunt. The young Jerry O'Connell, Devoreaux White and Sarah Jessica Parker all have small supporting roles. The film aired on CBS on January 31, 1987 and was later distributed on DVD. Leah Lazenby (Stockard Channing) is a single woman who lives in a house she recently inherited from her parents. In order to save money, maintaining her inheritance, she lets rooms to a variety of tenants"
"small town five miles up the Aire Valley . Although he wrote 12 works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, ""Room at the Top"" (1957). The novel was conceived when he was being treated for tuberculosis in a hospital near the Yorkshire Dales town of Grassington. He stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that ""Room at the Top"" was based on ""Bel Ami"", but that ""the critics didn't pick it up"". ""Room at the Top"" was turned into a successful 1959 film, with Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton and featuring an"
"The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1958 and was made into a film of the same name in 1960. The drama centers on Cora Flood, the wife of traveling salesman Rubin Flood. After she learns that her husband might be having a romantic relationship with another woman, she plans to leave the marriage and move in with her sister. Meanwhile,"
"partnership with Korda, helping him to finance his films including ""Richard III"" (1955). By 1959, they estimated their movies had earned more than £3million overseas. John Woolf became interested in ""Room at the Top"" after seeing an interview conducted by Woodrow Wyatt with the novel's author John Braine on ""Panorama"" on 8 April 1957. He bought a copy of the book the next day, and quickly purchased the film rights. Individually, John was instrumental in the formation of Anglia Television in 1958 and James wrote novels. In 1963, the Woolf brothers ran into trouble from the film distributors Defence Organisation"
"in the long run, it's history that counts."" Ellen lived in Ludhiana with his step sister until she died in 2014. He also has a brother, William who lives in Canada. His Autobiography, ""Lone Fox Dancing"", was published in 2017 Most of his works are influenced by life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel, ""The Room On the Roof"", was written when he was 17 and published when he was 21. It was partly based on his experiences at Dehradun, in his small rented room on the roof,"
"Room (novel) Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada); was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards. The film adaptation,"
"The Upstairs Room The Upstairs Room is a 1972 Holocaust survivor autobiography by Johanna Reiss documenting her childhood in occupied Holland during the Nazi invasion. Reiss is known as Annie de Leeuw during the period of this book. The story begins in the year 1938. Annie belongs to a Jewish family and has three sisters. Now, the Holocaust has started so they have nowhere to go. Her family is in grave danger. In the story, Annie and her elder sister Sini are separated from their family. They struggle through many hardships, such as their mother's illness and eventual death. They"
"Oscar–winning performance by Simone Signoret. In September 2012, BBC television broadcast a two-part dramatisation that had been delayed because of a dispute over copyright. Matthew McNulty was in the lead role. After achieving literary success, Braine moved to the south of England, living for a time in Woking. He wrote several more novels, including ""Life at the Top"", a sequel to ""Room at the Top"". His 1968 novel ""The Crying Game"" is set in London and captures some of the atmosphere of the 'Swinging Sixties'. (It is not related to the 1992 film of the same name). His 1974 book"
"as a sports journalist for D.C. Thomson and after the Second World War as an author, penning a number of well received novels and short stories. Paterson won the Atlantic Award for Literature in 1946. He adapted his own short story ""The Kidnappers"" for a cinema version released in 1953. Subsequently, he wrote a number of other screenplays, including the first screen version of John Braine's novel ""Room at the Top"" (1959) which later won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Paterson served as a governor for the British Film Institute, National Film School and the Arts Council of"
"The House on the Roof The House on the Roof is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. Mary Monroe, an opera singer, is shot dead one evening in her penthouse apartment. Another tenant of the building, Deborah Cavert, was present at the time of the murder, and must now prove her own innocence. Kirkus Review lauded ""The House on the Roof"" as an ""A-1 mystery"" with ""a successfully sustained atmosphere of horror"" throughout. Isaac Anderson of the ""New York Times"" described is as"
"The Room (novel) The Room is the second novel by Hubert Selby, Jr., first published in 1971. The novel centers on a nameless petty criminal locked in a remand cell, and explores his feelings of impotence, hatred and rage, and fantasies of revenge. Selby described the critical reception of the book as ""the greatest reviews I've ever read in my life"", although in reality it was not well received. The novel was regarded by Selby as the most disturbing book ever written, and Selby stated that he himself was unable to read it again for 20 years. At least one"
"Girl,"" it is sparer and sterner: Frank, unaware of her tragic fate, radiated lively, optimistic, girlish intensity, while Reiss wrote 'The Upstairs Room' after much of her hope and appetite for life had been extinguished. One expects the survivor to be the more expansive writer, but like so many Holocaust victims, Reiss was left emotionally crippled, fearful of being violently murdered, always ready to hide."" The Upstairs Room The Upstairs Room is a 1972 Holocaust survivor autobiography by Johanna Reiss documenting her childhood in occupied Holland during the Nazi invasion. Reiss is known as Annie de Leeuw during the period"
"The Fox in the Attic The Fox in the Attic is a 1961 novel by Richard Hughes, who is best known for ""A High Wind in Jamaica"". It was the first novel in his unfinished ""The Human Predicament"" trilogy. The novel opens in 1923. The protagonist, a young Welsh aristocrat named Augustine Penry-Herbert, discovers the body of a young girl and is incorrectly suspected of having something to do with her accidental death. Augustine decides to leave England and visit distant relations in Germany. He falls in love with his cousin Mitzi amidst the rise of Nazism, including the Munich"
"Simone Signoret Simone Signoret (; 25 March 192130 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest film stars. She became the second French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in ""Room at the Top"" (1959). In her lifetime she also received two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, an NBR Award and a Golden Globe nomination. Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, to André and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker, as the eldest of three children, with two"
"school for several years, she moved to the United States in the early 1950s, where she married Jim Reiss. Upon the urging of her husband, she wrote a young adult novel, ""The Upstairs Room"", sharing her personal experience of the events of the Second World War. Published in 1972, this classic YA novel won Reiss several awards. It was a Newbery Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book. It also won the Jewish Book Council Juvenile Book Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle, a German children's book award. Elie Wiesel considers"
"again playing Joe Lampton, with Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman and Michael Craig. In ""Room at the Top"", Joe Lampton's escape from his working class background through his seduction of, and marriage to, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner had been portrayed. Ten years on, Joe is living the dream of the successful young executive, complete with luxurious suburban house, white Jaguar, and two young children. However, Joe's life is not the dream it appears to be. Life at the Top (film) Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures."
"first short stories, ""Untouchable"", at the age of sixteen in 1951. Following his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands (U.K.) in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. In London, he started writing his first novel, ""The Room on the Roof"", the semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty; he did various jobs for a living. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher. After"
"Man at the Top (film) Man at the Top is a 1973 British drama film directed by Mike Vardy and starring Kenneth Haigh, spun off from the television series ""Man at the Top"" which itself was inspired by the 1959 film ""Room at the Top"" and its sequel ""Life at the Top"". Joe Lampton is promoted to managing director of a pharmaceutical company, and becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman, who is also his father-in-law. But Joe makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide because of his involvement in a drug that left 1000 African women sterile."
"The Footprints on the Ceiling The Footprints on the Ceiling (1939) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the second of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist. Ross Harte, publicity writer, is investigating the person behind a classified ad seeking a haunted house for sale. When it turns out to be his old friend The Great Merlini, Harte drops by his store, The Magic Shop, looking for an explanation. Harte and Merlini are soon swept up into a complex and bizarre plot involving the death of Linda Skelton, an"
"domain. There is also a 2009 translation by Peter Graves. American literary critic John Albert Macy (husband of Anne Sullivan) wrote in his ""The Critical Game"" (published in 1922): The Red Room (Strindberg novel) The Red Room () is a Swedish novel by August Strindberg that was first published in 1879. A satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In this novel Strindberg reflects his own experiences of living in poverty while writing this novel during February to November 1879. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where"
"Death from a Top Hat Death from a Top Hat (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist. In a poll of 17 detective story writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the seventh best locked room mystery of all time. ""As the story opens, free-lance writer Ross Harte is writing a magazine article on the modern detective story, and most of this article-to-be is included in the first chapter."" When a magician is found dead inside his locked"
"was popular in Britain, as was a comedy for Romulus, ""Three Men in a Boat"" (1956). ""After the Ball"" (1957) was a biopic of Vesta Tilley, in which Harvey played Walter de Frece. ""The Truth About Women"" (1958) was a comedy. Harvey's breakthrough to international stardom came after he was cast by director Jack Clayton as the social climber Joe Lampton in ""Room at the Top"" (1959), produced by British film producer brothers John and James Woolf of Romulus Films. For his performance, Harvey received a BAFTA Award nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Simone"
"novels including ""To Hear a Nightingale"", ""The Business"" and ""In Sunshine or in Shadow"". Most of her books are set in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1996, she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Charlotte Bingham The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including ""Upstairs, Downstairs""; ""Play for Today""; and ""Robin's Nest"". In her television work, she often worked with her husband, Terence Brady. The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham"
"Up in the Air (novel) Up in the Air is a 2001 novel by American author Walter Kirn. It was adapted into the 2009 feature film of the same name starring George Clooney. Ryan Bingham is a 35-year-old career transition counselor for a Denver-based management consulting company, Integrated Strategic Management (ISM). He is divorced and his disturbed younger sister is about to embark on yet another disastrous relationship. He flies around the country firing and then counseling recently laid-off people for reentering the job market. Bingham inhabits a world of Palm Pilots, rental cars, salted almonds, Kevlar luggage and nameless"
"A Gate at the Stairs A Gate at the Stairs is a novel by American fiction writer Lorrie Moore. It was published by Random House in 2009. The novel won Amazon.com's ""best of the month"" designation and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. The novel’s main character is Tassie Keltjin. At age 20, Keltjin is attending a major university identified only as the ""Athens of the Midwest."" When the novel opens, she is looking for a job as a nanny. With no real childcare experience, she finds that the only mother willing to"
"The Red Room (French novel) The Red Room is a psychological thriller novel by Nicci French, the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. It was first published in 2001. Kit Quinn is a psychologist who ends up scarred after meeting a troubled arrested man. When she goes back to work after the incident she is asked to review a case for the police, in which the man who scarred her is the main suspect. Against everyone else's suggestions she decides to defend this man, at least until more evidence is found. Her suspicions end up proven"
"The Living Room (play) The Living Room is a 1953 play by Graham Greene; it was the first play he wrote in his career. The play consists of two acts, each of two scenes and is set entirely in the living room of Rose Pemberton and her two elderly aunts who live with the aunts' brother James, a disabled Roman Catholic priest. The aunts have a long running fear of death in the house, with any bedroom being locked away from further use following a death of its resident family member. The story resolves around the introduction of Rose's new"